Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-21
THE EAST.

0CIOuS dIGdCA VI T0SCOH DTOOhS.
THE EAST.
THE Pennsylvania Company has decided
to test the validity of the lease of the Van
dalia line, and to that end will bring suit at
Springfield, Ill. 1t is the intention to break
the lease, if possible.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake were re-
ported in Northern New Hampshire on
the 18th.
G. G.. SPEAR, who died the other day at
the Edwin Forrest Home, near Philadelphia,
in the seventy-eighth year of his age, was
in his earlier days, highly popular and
successful comedian. On the night when
President Lincoln was shot at Ford's
theater he was playing in ''Our American
Cousin" and was a personal witness to
that tragedy.
The pleasure yacht Mystery, with large
number Of women and children on board,
was capsized on the evening of the 10th IN
Carnarsio bay, New York. Twenty-three
lives were lost. The disaster was attrib
uted to drunkenness of the captain and
others.
THE engineers of the Brooklyn elevated
roads quit work on the afternoon of the
18th. The men complained of long hours
and rumored reduction of wages.
THE liabilities of the Oxford Copper and
Sulphur Company, of 81 Wall street, New
York, and at Boston, Constable's Hook,
IN. D., anu Sdpl0UOH, SdHdId, WHICH, has
been placed in the hands of receiver, are
reported to be about $500, 600, with nominal
assets twice that amount
JOCKEY HARRIS, who was recently in
iured at the Brighton Beach, L. L, race
course, has died.
THE annual convention of the union of
American-Hebrewc congregations began in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th.
THREE small boys were drowned recently
while bathing in the Delaware at Philadel-
phia.
. ADvICEs from Addison, N. Y, tell of
great devastation by fire just over the
Pennsylvania line. Many thousands of
cords of tanbarR, 1000, 900 feet of logs and
large qu&Etities of manufactured lumber
have been destrC yed, as well as big trestle
on the Addison 6 North Pennsylvania rail-
road
FoRTY-Two alleged pauper immigrants
were detained at Castle Garden, New Y ork,
on the 18th.
WINTHROP CUNNINGHAM & Sous, drug
and South American product dealers of
New York and Philadelphia, have made a
. temporary assignment because of litiga-
ton.
PRESIDENT j. NJ. ADAMS, of the New
York Pennsylvania & Ohio railway, has
resigned and been succeeded by G. E.
Whitehead, of New York.
THOMAS DURAND, aged seventy years,
cOlOr6U, known as '-JdpdneSo 1Ommy,' was
buried the other day lit New York. He was
dwarf, three feet high, and had been ex-
hibited before all the crowned heads of
Europe.
THREE oil stills exploit I'D at Point Breeze,
'near Philadelphia, recently, severely injur-
ing many of the workrlen.
The deaths of petsons IN Philadelphia
from eating bread aculterated with chrome
yellow has been fixed on August Upper
sims, who introduced the practice, and he
has been arrested.
SIX cases of sunstroke were reported in
New York on the 18th. The sufferngs in
the tenement districts We're dreadful, ow-
ing to the heat
o. S. GRANT post No. 327, G. A. R.. OF
Brooklyn, has passed resolutions denounc-
ing recent attacks upon the order as sin
cults to the living and ISLANDERS upon ou1
dead The resolutions also declare that
the Grand Army men ''appeal to the loyal
press of the country without regard to par
tisan affiliation.'
WILLIAM II. EvERsoN q Co., iron manu-
facturers, operating mill IN Pittsburgh
and coke works at Scott Dale, Pa. have
made an assignment. The liabilities are
estimated at about 500, 900 with assets al
$4,000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND made an address
at Clinton, N. ", on the 18th, the occasion
being its centennial celebration.
EIGHT hundred workmen at the Black
Diamond steel works, Pittsburgh, Pa.
struck the other day because the firm re
fused to reinstate men recently dis
charged.
The jury in the case of Wilson, on trial a
Albion, N. Y, for killing his wife by
smothering her with a towel, brought in
verdict of murder in the first degree.
CARMI7s KING. dealer in small wares
trimmings, etc, Boston, has failed. Liabili
ties, S53, 900; assets, light
JACOB SHARP, convicted of bribery in the
Broadway railroad surface case at New
York, was sentenced by Judge Barrett OF
the 14th to four years. lmprison ment and t.
pay fine of S, 600.
THERE were reports at New York tina,
Rev. DIR. McGlynn, the accommodated
Priest, would bring suit against Archbishop
Corrigan and others for boycotting and def
agnation of character.
JosEPH W. WHITE cashier Of the Phila
dslphia Times, is short to the amount o.
600 at least.
sTHE final heat in the rowing regatta a
Worcester Mass, on the 14th was won by
Teemer, who defeated Hamm and Lee.